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Is this the simple message John
Anyone worth listening to agrees that black lives matter. But what does the organisation ‘Black Lives Matter’ stand for? Worryingly, for the 34,000 Brits who have topped up BLM UK’s coffers with over £1million in recent weeks, finding out is no easy task.
Despite being inundated with donations, BLM UK does not appear to have its own website and is not a registered charity. What’s more, the group is resisting calls for it to become one. So why won’t it? ‘A charity structure would not allow us the freedom and flexibility to do our political work in the ways we wish to do them,’ according to BLM UK. What then is that political work? Here are 11 things that BLM UK advocates that might make some supporters think twice about backing the organisation:
1. BLM wants to ‘dismantle capitalism’
This objective might come as a shock to many of those who have donated to the BLM cause. It might come as a particular surprise to Premier League footballers like Man City’s Kevin De Bruyne, whose shirt at Monday’s game against Burnley was emblazoned with the organisation’s slogan. De Bruyne is City’s top earner and is paid £350,000 a week. It is unlikely he would fare as well without capitalism.
2. BLM says climate change is 'racist'
BLM’s attempt to blockade Heathrow and London City airports in 2016 was greeted with widespread bemusement. Why was ‘Black Lives Matter’ trying to stop people going on holiday? The answer: ‘Climate crisis is a racist crisis,’ the group said on its Twitter feed. ‘Black people are the first to die, not the first to fly, in this racist climate crisis,’ it added.
3. BLM wants to abolish prisons
Prisons and detention centres should be abolished,’ BLM UK has said. It seems likely that Britain’s 80,000 prisoners would approve, but do the thousands who have donated to BLM also back this policy? And what should happen to those convicted of violent crimes like murder if there are no prisons?
4. BLM wants to get rid of borders
Britain’s borders are ‘enforced by extreme violence,’ according to BLM UK, which proposes that open borders might be the answer.
5. BLM says unemployment is 'violence'
Not having a job is miserable, but is it really 'violence'? Yes, according to BLM UK.
6. BLM condemns stop and search
Tragically, a quarter of those killed with a knife in Britain last year were black. This is the highest proportion since records began more than twenty years ago. Stop and search is far from perfect but it is a key strategy for police to ensure that more black teenagers don’t have their lives cut short. Yet BLM describes an uptick in what it calls 'racist' stop and search as ‘violence’.
7. BLM wants to get rid of the police
The group says it seeks to ‘develop’ and ‘deliver...strategies for the abolition of police’
8. BLM says the government appointment of a Pakistani heritage woman is 'racist'
Munira Mirza is something of a great British success story. Mirza, a working-class northerner of Pakistani heritage, was the only pupil in her sixth form to win a place at Oxford. Mirza now heads up the No.10 policy unit. So how did BLM react when she was tasked by the PM with setting up a commission on racial inequality? ‘This appointment is racist,' BLM UK said.
9. BLM condemned the suffragettes
Suffragettes ultimately secured the vote for women in Britain. A progressive step? BLM UK doesn't appear to be convinced: 'Despite what you might've learned at school, many suffragettes were also working to advance White power,' the organisation has tweeted.
10. BLM said Churchill is 'staunchly racist'
Without Churchill it seems all but certain that Britain would have lost the war to Nazi Germany. And yet while Churchill was clearly no saint, is it fair to describe him – as BLM does on its Facebook page – as 'staunchly racist'?
11. BLM describes big charities as 'colonisers'
Big charities are nothing more than colonisers repackaged for the 21st century,' according to BLM on its official UK Facebook page.
As a result of some of these policies, aims and statements coming to light, there is growing disquiet among supporters who have stumped up cash only to discover what BLM UK really stands for. BLM UK is also continuing to resist calls to be more transparent about its leadership because of concerns about a possible threat from far-right activists. Instead, in responding to questions about who runs it, BLM UK says: ‘We assure you all organisers involved with BLM UK are Black (not politically black, Black and of the African and Caribbean diaspora) and the funds raised will be diligently used to transform the nature of Black life in the UK.'
Will that be enough to reassure those people who agree that black lives matter but don't buy into the Black Lives Matter political project?
You claim that you know, and that there is "an organisation."
However, AFAIK you have not found a single organisation that all BLM supporters are members of.
When (if?) you do find such a single organisation, feel free to post their Constitution on here, and a copy of the Policies agreed by their Committee, and voted on by their membership.
Until then, you are just throwing random guesses and smears.
BTW, if you are going to copy and paste propganda from racist websites, you really ought to acknowledge what they are.
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I know nothing about BLM they seem to be a faceless organisation that don't even have a website. Yet they have a Facebook page. do they exist John? Over
£1 million has gone somewhere.
So you say it' an Organisation and a Group. And you say it has policies and beliefs. And you claim to know what they are.
and you suggest that you have seen their accounts
How did you do that?
But then you say
So which is it? Do you "know" that it is an "organisation" and that you "know" its policies?
Or do you "know nothing?"
Yes.
If I wanted to read the spectator then I'd go to their website. Nothing stops you posting it verbatim here, other than plagiarism, but it's dull.
Also wrong but that's a different matter.
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I never wrote that John>>>>
Like I say not my words. Like you John I read the internet. Lots of fake news John. But you believe everything that sides with your Narrative. I believe what sides with my Narrative but not all of it.
yes you did, it's up there with your name on it.
No attribution.
No quotation marks.
No "according to the Yaxley Times."
You wrote it, so take responsibility for your actions.
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Poor old John thinks its my journalism. Do you expect me to go to the Daily Mirror for my information
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You want to see my Grammer. Its as bad as my English.
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Id prefer it if people put up a summary and a link. I don't expect it though.
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